@monodot

Builder of things. Also: fan of camels, trains and planes.

tomd.xyz
Joined November 2008
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It took this post to make me realise that as programmers we really can build almost anything we want or need. We don't have to rely on big tech. robinsloan.com/notes/home-co…
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I refuse to pay $100+/year for a budgeting app, so I just made my own, in Google Sheets. It still handles CSVs from my bank and draws pretty charts too. But without a subscription. I wrote about why simple solutions are the best: tomd.xyz/spending-tracker-go…

I created a spending tracker product, because I loathe subscriptions

I built a Google Sheets spending tracker because I refuse to pay $109/year for a glorified dashboard - and I’m selling it for $10.

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Week 2 building my workout app - super-late-but-better-than-never Big milestone: app now comes with pre-loaded workouts, instead of starting empty. Cos nobody likes a blank screen. Plus other boring work. But getting closer to something people could actually use. Exciting.
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Getting back into building in public. Creating an outdoor workout iOS app for people who hate gyms (like me). Been using it myself for 2+ weeks and it's already changed my workouts. This week: battling WorkoutKit, SwiftData and concurrency🏃‍♂️📱😩
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Dario Amodei's Machines of Loving Grace essay - but without JavaScript enabled
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Why is TuneIn so obsessed with NFL. Like, do you not have any other interests
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Publishing my first iOS app for review! What a palaver. Why do I need to publish a Privacy Policy for an app that collects no personal info whatsoever
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All I want to do is publish a little utility to the App Store
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And here’s how the app looks today - quite pleased with it so far 😀 Honestly, Claude is the superpower that’s helped me get to this stage. Soooo often I would get lost in yak-shaving or some other pointless task. Well, not any more.
Tom Donohue@monodot20 Jul 2024
I’m building an app to help you remember things about your friends. Here’s how it’s looking. So far it’s been quite fun to build! Expo / React Native / TinyBase. #buildinpublic
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Sorcha Ní Nia@Luiseach6 Sep 2024
“you’re an absolute prick, Gary” get me a Gary immediately
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how does zoom actually get worse with every release
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Productive day - got my very first React Native app built and installed on my iPhone, all thanks to Expo! Quite surprised I achieved it tbh 😂
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Basic styles in action
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Bernie is fine.
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Disappointment guaranteed
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Whose mad idea was it to build images without any sort of shell in them
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Jordan Singer
@jsngr4 Aug 2024
build the software that you want to see in the world
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Wandering the hills
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You cannot beat the original Rail Alphabet typeface <3
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Shortwave is a very nice radio app for Linux. Easy to find and listen to radio - without the modern annoyances of: - preroll ads on Alexa (like the dreadful @BBCSounds & @tunein) - UK copyright blocking - having to register and then accept 1,000 cookies
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Claude.ai casually writing a shell script for Keycloak that needs a lot of specific knowledge, and getting it correct first time. In years gone by, this would have taken me a whole day. Absolutely amazing.
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